Thanks for the pictures, those are great. Doesn't matter what is going on with Noah, he is adorable and that face will take him far! Ezra is so cute and chubby. Hope things are looking up for you as far as the school selection goes.

@ Amanda, hahahaha I thought of Flight of the Conchords, too! Foo de fafafalala.

And I just love how they match. You're matching, too, aren't you? I swear I don't mean to but most days I look down and both Diego and myself are wearing the same color or shades of the same color. And similar smears of snot and food. It's all very similar.

Now, below is the comment I carefully constructed in reply to your last post about diapers, before you carelessly closed comments! Well hah, here is the novel anyway!

Hi Amalah,

Long time lurker, first time commenter. (I first read your IKEA dresser of doom column and laughed myself so silly I insisted on reading it to my husband. He cracked a smile, but only barely, because he's been the one to deal with all the IKEA assembly in our house..LOL. BUT I digress)

Regarding the cloth dapers: good for you! I have been using them since my son was born, and he is now 2yrs 4months old, and not yet potty trained (We're working on it, but he really couldn't care less if he craps his pants.) Besides the whole environmental thing, my motivation for going cloth was money. I have had excellent results and would do it all over again. I have been working full time since he was one year old and have had no problems keeping up with the laundry either. I've been using the good old fashioned pre-folds with the Super Whisper wraps diaper covers(all white, thanks, no patterns or colours needed for us.)and the Snappi fasteners. I did try a couple of the fancier diapers at the beginning, fuzzi bunz and bum genius includud, and did not find any difference in usage, only a breathtaking expensiveness. (they are for peeing and pooping in for goodness sake!) For the sake of our budget, there was no way we could get the fancy ones. The prefolds I got were in two sizes: the infant one, which you can use from birth to about a year or so, depending on the size of your baby, and the toddler size, which you use after the infant size until you toilet train. The only thing you change as the kid grows are the covers, and they last a good long time too. I started with the "newborn" size, but my boy was 9lb3oz, so you know they didn't last too long. At about 3 months we switched to the "small" size, and they lasted until he was about year old, when we switched to the "medium" size which he is still wearing. these covers do not leak , EVER. They are amazing.

I bought two diaper pail liners (in sage, to match his room of course) and I alternate those. I also bought a batch of cloth wipes with the diapers which I use in a wipes warmer and wash with the diapers. I make a solution for the wipes using those little natural soap wafers you dissolve in hot water, but you can go a lot simpler too. I find the cloth wipes way better at their job than those flimsy disposable ones.
My husband has been completely on board and uses them faithfully and quite expertly, the only thing is I do have to maintain the system (ie wash, fold, make wipe solution, refill warmer, etc) but that was our deal from the beginning and I am happy to do it.

I don't remeber off hand where I got them from, but I bought almost everything from an on-line store which I found super cheap. If you are interested, e-mail me and I'll look it up for you.

Anyway, good luck, don't get overwhlemed and paralyzed at the massive amount of information available on-line, I did that and endured far more sterss than I had to. My solution was to go with the cheapest and simplest solution, and it worked like a charm. On top of all that, we can use them if we decide to have a second baby, and because everything is white, we don't have to worry if it's a girl.
Let us know how things progress!

I dont't know what is different.... but what I DO want to know is how on earth do you get Ezra to do tummy-time without losing his bananas?? My 5-month old acts like I am torturing him or something... thus he will never crawl I am sure. :-/

Bethany's future hubby is still the most adorable little boy on the planet (but Ez is coming up fast). AND I personally think what is now being labeled as sensory issues will turn out to be that he's really a genius.

Now you just have to MOVE TO MY TOWN AND BE MY BEST FRIEND. Just sayin. :)